About to Upgrade from TP v0.9.8 to TP v1.0 beta 4

[Muldoon]

Thank you ZarPrime. Currently I only have one mod installed so that should be ok.  It was a long night last night, so just trying to get motivated now for this manual install (as I did move forward with those instructions last night and ran into an issue after executing the install through the package manager.  Everything tested successful - I even verified all those files tested were chmod'd to 777 and then the error message...so who knows.)   Thank you for the advice.

[Muldoon]

Hi guys,

I may forgo the manual install at this time.  I guess my question is, will there be a stable release any time soon?  I've been reading that TP v0.9.8 is the latest stable version and I'm wondering if I should just wait to go through the hassle of a manual upgrade when there is a newer 'stable release'?  If I do choose to wait and go this route, will this cause more problems later on?

[smartmouse]

I read this topic and the other about upgrading TP to 1.0.X version. I want to procede in the following way:

Uninstall TP v0.9.8 mod
Install TP v1.0 Beta 4

Is it right?

Just a question: all my blocks, news, articles, downloads etc, will be deleted or they will work with no problem in the newer version of TP that i'm going to install?

Thank you and sorry for my english.

[ZarPrime]

Hi smartmouse,

You should probably have posted your own support topic, but, since you didn't, if your plan is to do the upgrade based on the topic posted by Lord Anubis referenced in the OP of this topic, it will not be necessary to uninstall TP 0.98 as the method described by Lord Anubis will remove all of your Mods, including TinyPortal.

All of your blocks, news, articles, etc. will be preserved as you will not be touching the database, though there will be database changes during the install of TP 1.0 beta 4.  For this reason, you should first make sure your forum is set to the default SMF theme and secondly, make sure that you backup the current database in case something goes wrong.  This way, you will have a copy of the database that you can fall back on in the event of problems.

ZarPrime

[smartmouse]

I don't want to use the method by Lord Anubis and i don't want to delete all my installed mods.
I want just to uninstall a mod, TinyPortal v0.9.8, and then i want to install another mod, TinyPortal v1.0 Beta 4.

It should work, right?

Then... how to convert database data of v0.9.8 to suit database changes of v1.0?

[smartmouse]

I don't want to use the method by Lord Anubis and i don't want to delete all my installed mods.
I want just to uninstall a mod, TinyPortal v0.9.8, and then i want to install another mod, TinyPortal v1.0 Beta 4.

It should work, right?

It worked! And it's the better way in my opinion!

Then... how to convert database data of v0.9.8 to suit database changes of v1.0?

It suit all old database entries to the new version of TP


Thank you anyway

[smartmouse]

Here is the first problem!

The "Download" button does not appear anymore. What could be the problem?

In index.template.php i have this code:

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// Show the [download] button.
echo '<a href="', $scripturl, '?action=tpmod;dl">'.$txt['tp-download'].'</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;';

It appears only if i go to Download section! Why?

[IchBin]

smartmouse, if you wouldn't mind we would appreciate if you would start a new topic for new issues. This will help others when searching for the same answer. We also need to know what theme you are using. It helps if you post the code for the button like you have, but it also helps if you post the code for the above and below buttons so we can see what the buttons are doing.